I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right.
PETER TOSHMy job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body. Then you ain’t gon’ feel it.
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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.
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And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
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I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?
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It is only the truth that can make a man free, it is only the truth that can make a man live.
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I am good. I live good. I think good. I don’t have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.
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My mother and father didn’t know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, ‘My, the man play that guitar nice.’
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Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That’s why me go write a song called ‘Illegitimate Children.’ It took me years to find out I was one.
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In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
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I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren’t teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.
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Music is in me.
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I man don’t come red, I come Black
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